Blastoff! Talking robot Kirobo to head off to space

Japanese auto giant Toyota Motor engineer Fuminori Kataoka chats with humanoid robot Kirobo in Tokyo on June 26, 2013. A small humanoid robot Kirobo which can talk will be sent into space to provide conversational company for a Japanese astronaut in the international space station on a six-month mission from this August. - YOSHIKAZU TSUNO/AFP/Getty Images

This final note: You can look forward to the first conversation between a human and a robot in space.